Dead And Dripping create their own kaleidoscopic world of dizzying and pummelling brutal/technical death metal where they relentlessly whip up a maelstrom of mind-boggling riffs and drum patterns. It's too easy to drown yourself in their undulating waves of intense blasting and slower breakdowns and one can't be blamed to lie corpse-like amid it all.

Wasting no time in introductions, a chaotic assortment of strings and drums open the gates for this record and never backs down for a single moment. Even if the first segment seems simple enough, as the album progresses it becomes more maniacal and heavy. The guitars are heavy in their own right with a wide variety of riffs and great solos to add some variety. The bass sounds glorious and crystal clear and also provides moments of technical prowess on its own. The drums are well executed and I commend the man behind the instruments for being able to consistently keep up the recurrent changes in tempo, never faltering for a single moment. The vocal performance is excellent as well, with a monstrous guttural growl that evocates similarities between Frank Mullen and Antti Boman. Considering that the band as a whole seems to take pages from the book of Suffocation and Demilich, this should be of no surprise. Read full review here.

MetalBite is proud to present new track 'Hysterical Mirages of Otherworldly Calamity' from the upcoming DEAD AND DRIPPING's new record Blackened Cerebral Rifts coming out this August 11th, 2023 via Transcending Obscurity Records. This bludgeoning dose of death metal should appeal to music fans of Wormed, Demilich, Defeated Sanity, Suffocation, Mortal Decay, Wicked Innocence.

DEAD AND DRIPPING is:

Evan Daniele - Everything

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The evening begins with a well-filled Westfalenhalle, I think that the concert was sold out and my biggest concert so far, where I may stand in the photo pit. I must say that I was quite excited because of the approximately 15000 people in the background. However, the audience was still very reserved for the likable Swedes from Thundermother, who were allowed to open for the Scorpions on this tour and also play their own tour (the day before they were still on tour in Switzerland), only in front of the stage the four girls were celebrated. Their entertaining hard rock/ heavy metal was apparently too much for the somewhat older audience. However, I enjoyed the ten songs they played a lot and Thundermother seemed to have a lot of fun as well, because their stage show was very playful and full of movement and again and again singer Linnéa Vikström tried to involve the audience. This was a great show, which deserved more enthusiasm from the Dortmund audience.

Setlist: 'Loud & Free' / 'Try With Love' / 'Hellevator' / 'Dog From Hell' / 'Into The Mud' / 'I Don't Know You' / 'Whatever' / 'Shoot To Kill' / 'Watch Out' / 'Driving In Style'

After a changeover break it was finally time for the Scorpions, who were frantically celebrated by the audience. Beside old classics like 'Rock You Like A Hurricane', 'Blackout' or the meanwhile dead used 'Wind Of Change' (but today in a Ukrainian language version) the current album Rock Believer was clearly in the focus of the show. But that's understandable and since the album is pretty cool back to the roots, not wrong. However, I would have liked to see some classics from the Taken By Force record. I was surprised how agile Klaus Meine and Co still are, because the gentlemen ran permanently over the rather large stage and showed hardly any signs of fatigue even after almost two hours of playing time. Also drummer Mikkey Dee is an absolute animal, it was pretty cool what the ex-Motörhead drummer delivered. By the way, you could watch the whole thing on two huge monitor screens, which also gave the audience in the very back of the hall a good visuelle show. In any case, the Scorpions convinced me that they can still sting for a long time, even if Klaus Meine sounded a bit off-key here and there.

Setlist: 'Gas In The Tank' / 'Make It Real' / 'The Zoo' / 'Coast To Coast' / 'Seventh Sun' / 'Peacemaker' / 'Bad Boys Running Wild' / 'Delicate Dance' / 'Send Me An Angel' / 'Wind Of Change' (Ukrainian Version) / 'Tease Me Please Me' / 'Rock Believer / 'New Vision' (Drum Solo) / 'Blackout' / 'Big City Nights' / 'Still Loving You' / 'Rock You Like A Hurricane'